Cancel the crystal and china orders for Republican ... McCaughey had surprised more than one Betsy watcher when she began dating the 56-year-old Ross shortly after her messy divorce from husband ...

Flagmaker Betsy Ross is embraced as one of the most popular figures of the American Revolution. The young Philadelphia seamstress stitched the original Old Glory in the summer of 1776 at the ...

Now she is one of the women bringing that history to life for the many visitors of the Betsy Ross House. "We call ourselves interpreters," says Spacht. She and a few other women portray Ross at ...

They did this knowing that the woman, also known as Betsy Ross, isn’t there. In her busy afterlife, Ross — who may or may not have sewn the first official American flag — was buried at age ...

“Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” ...